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Bengali Mixed Vegetable

5 from 7 votes
Mixed Vegetable is a medley of vegetables cooked together in a spice mix. It is flavoursome and makes a good side dish.
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Prep Time 10 minutes
Cook Time 15 minutes
Total Time 25 minutes
Servings: 6 people
Course: dry sabzi, lunch ideas
Cuisine: Bengali
Ingredients Equipment Method Notes

Ingredients
  

  • 2 teaspoon oil
  • 1-2 bay leaf
  • 4 green chilli
  • 1/4 teaspoon turmeric powder
  • asafoetida
  • panchphoran mix ingredients given below
  • 2 cup beans
  • 1 capsicum
  • 2 potato
  • 1 cup green pea
  • salt
  • 1/2 teaspoon chilli powder
For the panch phoran mix:
  • 1/2 teaspoon mustard
  • 1/2 teaspoon fenugreek
  • 1/2 teaspoon nigella
  • 1/2 teaspoon fennel
  • 1/2 teaspoon cumin

Equipment

  • 1 pan
  • 1 ladle
  • 5 bowls
  • 1 lid cover

Method
 

To make the panch phoran mix:
  1. Dry roast the ingredients for two minutes. Once it cools, grind it.
To make the sabzi;
  1. Cut the vegetable into one inch long thin pieces. If the peas are frozen, put them in water.
  2. Take oil in a pan, add bay leaf, break the chilli into two and throw it. Add asafoetida and turmeric powder. Now, put the panch phoran mix into it.
  3. Add the vegetables depending on their cooking timee. First, put the beans, a little later put the potato pieces, capsicum and lastly the green peas. Gently stir and allow to cook for sometime. Sprinkle salt. You can cover it with a plate with some water on it. This facilitates even cooking.
  4. When it is done, sprinkle a little chilli powder and remove from flame.

Notes

Other vegetables as brinjal, pumpkin, cauliflower and cabbage may be used.